The Legbar Thread!

[huckleberryfarm]

While waiting and looking for a rooster, I put one of my lavender Ameraucanas in with the girls. It's a shame to not do something with their eggs! I was reading the previous post about the Barnevelder/Cream Legbar cross and successfully confused myself. What would this combination produce as far as chicks? Blue eggs at least! If I decided to keep going with this project, how long until I get an autosexed chick? By the time the chicks are breeding age, I'll have a Cream Legbar boy for them!

 

[Flowerbh]

blackbirds13, did you ever decide to cull your CLs? I am still looking to get some. Thanks!

 

[RachaelS]

Great project! As far as your Barne X Cream Legbar crossing goes. You should get a darker egg if you use a Barney rooster over Cream Legbar hens, but either combination can be used.

Punnett's research in egg color genetics showed that there is one gene for the blue egg color, and more than a dozen genes for brown egg color. Some of the brown egg color genes are sex linked genes so the rooster contributes more brown genes than the hen to the pullets of the cross.

As far as the auto-sexing goes, a Barne Roo (who is not barred) over Cream Legbar hens (single barring gene) will produce a sex link. All the pullet will be non-barred and all the cockerels will be barred. This would similar to your Barne X Barred Plymouth Rock.

If you reverse the Cream Legbars (roos with two barring genes) with the Barnes (non-barred), then the sex-link is lost because both the cockerels and pullets will receive a single barring gene from the father.

For your Barnebar, you will need to produce a roosters with two barring genes. You currently have single barred rosters breed back to Barne hens. You can breed the Barred Barne hens from that crossing back to the Single Barred roosters and you should get 50% single barred 50% double barred Barnebar roosters. Breeding the double barred rooster to barred females will produce auto-sexing offspring with all the males being double barred and the females only single barred.

GaryDean,
I responded to your PM before I saw this. Thank you so much!!! Okay so if I work on the BarneBar project and get a good double barred BarneBar Roo, then put him over a Cream Legbar Hen, they should be Auto-sexed right from the start right? Genes are so exciting

Dirt Farmer,
They are so pretty! I can't wait to get mine. Should be this weekend!

Blackbirds13,
Any luck? I hope your girls came home last night.

 

[Wolf-Kim]

Snapped a few pictures today. These are legbars hatched from madamwolf's eggs May 16, 2012. They are growing fast.

The white pair. Pictures aren't the best, the birds were already put up for the night as there is a storm blowing through and as you can tell from the Cream Legbars it is HOT.

 

[Debbi]

Ok, just learning here, where do the whites come from?? Mutants, or are they to be expected as sports every now and then? Any difference in egg color?

 

[RyeRanch]

Egg #1 of my hatch is a boy! My first replacement for the roo I lost. The second was a WHITE! My first. Lots of others have hatched them from my eggs but this is my first! Don't know what I'll do with it but I wanted to hatch one for sure.

Double congrats! I am so happy to hear that you have a new Roo.

 

[The Sheriff]

Well, after it dried, that first one turned out to be a female. The next three were whites followed by a male that hatched this morning. I gave one white and the female to a friend and kept two whites and the male for myself. Here they are:




The white that I gave to my fiend had very faint stripes on the back, almost unnoticeable. These two don't have any so I am assuming the might be boys. I still have nine eggs left in a very staggered hatch over the next two weeks.

 

[The Sheriff]

My CL girl that stopped laying then laid a shell-less egg a few days ago laid one today but this time it had a membrane. I am hoping she is on the road to recovery. Meanwhile I am getting one of these little wind eggs daily from my new layer.




The last eggs that developed in the incubator were from the 14th so I think that is all I will get. Now I raise a couple of new roos and wait.

 

[Phage]

My CL girl that stopped laying then laid a shell-less egg a few days ago laid one today but this time it had a membrane. I am hoping she is on the road to recovery. Meanwhile I am getting one of these little wind eggs daily from my new layer.




The last eggs that developed in the incubator were from the 14th so I think that is all I will get. Now I raise a couple of new roos and wait.

Congrats Mary, that is fabulous!!!

 

[The Sheriff]

I put the three new babies in a small cage inside the big cage with my week old cream legabr. She immediately started mothering them. Her she is clucking for food they get reach.




I had to cover the top with a board so she didn't get her feet stuck! Cream Legbar girls rock!